The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with rel…

- Anatol Rapoport

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this stru…

- Anatol Rapoport

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

- Anatol Rapoport

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of u…

- Anatol Rapoport

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

- Anatol Rapoport

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each…

- Anatol Rapoport

Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical an…

- Anatol Rapoport

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

- Anatol Rapoport

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

- Anatol Rapoport